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I drink no more than a sponge.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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